Fastener.



PATBNTBD SEPT. 15, 1903.

L.` REITER.

FASTENER.

APPLIOAT ION FILI'ID APB. 11. 1903.

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Patented September 15, 1903. i

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LUEs REiTER, on NEW YORK, N VY.

FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,222, dated September 15, 1903. Application filed April ll, 1903. Serial No. 152,163. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, LUES REITER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Fastener, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the socket part of those stud and-socket fasteners used on gloves, suspender-ends, and in various other connections where two flexible vsheet-like parts are to be releasably connected. .n

According to the present example of my invention the socket part is stamped up from an integral section of sheet metal and formed with two opposing overhanging essentially parallel walls, which not only hold the fastener-section securely in the cloth, leather, or other material to which it is applied, but act to engage and holdthe stud, the sheet metal forming the socket Aparthaving a certain degree of resiliency which allows the stud to be engaged and disengaged at will.

The invention involves various other features of more or less importance, and all will be fully described hereinafter.

This specification is an exact description of one example of myinvention, while the claim defines the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a plan view of the blank from which the device is formed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the fastener part during the first step in its formation. showing the next step in the formation of the fastener part. Fig. 4 isa section on the line et 4 of Fig. 6. Fig. 5 is a section showing a stud engaged with the socket part. Fig. 6 is a plan of the inner side of the socket' part, showing it applied to a suspender-end5 and Fig. 7 is a plan ofthe outer side of the same.

The blank from which the socket member is formed is shownin Fig. l, in which view said blank Ahas an essentially'circular middle or body portion a, fromY diametrically opposite sides of which tongues b project. j This blank is formed of sheet metal stamped up in one integral part.

Fig. 3 is a section- Y The first step in forming the socket meml ber is to bend the tongues inward and thence upward, forming shoulders b' on the tongues adjacent to the body a. l I prefer also to dish the body o slightly, as shown in Figs. 3,4, and 5. The fabric or other material in which the socket member is to be fastened is formed lwith an essentially rectangular opening, (indicated at c in Figs. 3,-4, and 6,) and through this opening the tongues b are projected, the shoulders b lying against the under side of the fabric or other material and the edges of the body a between the tongues lying snugly against the fabric. This position is shown in Fig. 3, and after the same has been taken the tongues b are bent inward and thence outward, as indicated at b2, forming two overhanging diametrically opposite walls, and` simultaneously clenching the material to which the fastening-section is applied between the outer portions of the tongues and-the shoulders bthereof. i

The engagement of the stud member with the socket member is shown in Fig. 4:. In this connection it will be observed that the stud is sprung in between the two overhanging walls formed by the tongues. The material of which the socket part is formed should be possessed of a certain degree of resiliency, so that these overhanging walls will securely hold the stud, but will, however, permit the disengaging of the stud by springing its head out from between the walls.

The invention lnay be used with a-stud or button of any form desired, and the curvature .of the walls b2 may be varied at will.

This fastener can be constructed very cheaply and applied securely and easily to the article with which it is to be used. It is more durable and edective than those generallyem`- Ico Various changes in the form, proportions,-

and minor details of my invention may be resorted to at will without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. Hence I consider myself entitled to all such variations as may lie within the intent of my claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentm A socket fastener part, comprising a body and diametricallysituated tongues thereon, said tongues being bent inward at their bases to form shoulders,and the bodyand said shoulders lying against one side of the material to which the fastener part is applied, the tongues being projected through an opening in such material and having they portions outward from said shoulders bent inward and thence outward to eleneh the said material between the parts of the tongues at points adjacent to the said openin g therein, thereby securing the fastener part in place and forming walls overhanging the body and adapted to engage the stud part of the fastener, the said tongues being separated from each other by edges of the body, and said edges of the body being free and lying fiat against the said material at points outward from the opening therein.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LUES REITER. Witnesses:

ISAAC B. OWENS, JN0. M. RITTER. 

